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Eminent cultural personality Sanjida Khatun no more
Greenwatch Desk
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2025-03-25, 5:41pm
Eminent cultural personality and president of Chhayanaut Dr Sanjida Khatun passed away at a hospital in the capital on Tuesday. She was 92.
Sanjida Khatun, who had been suffering from various old-age ailments, breathed her last at Square Hospital around 3 pm, according to family sources.
Sanjida completed her bachelor's in Bengali literature from the University of Dhaka in 1955. She earned her MA degree in Bangla language from Visva Bharati University in 1957.
Sanjida joined the faculty of the University of Dhaka to teach Bengali literature.
Sanjida was one of the founders of Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha during the Liberation War in 1971 and Chhayanaut in the early 1960s, reports UNB.